Yeah, Magic Numbers don't bother me at all, they're sweet overweight aging hippies who like to sing pleasant vocal harmonies.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
you know who belonged on here even tho I liked a couple of their songs? Maximo Park
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Shiteness rating out of 10
ATHLETE - 9/10: really this is the point where post-Coldplay bands just started taking the piss. Also I think they were technically Christian rock.BABYSHAMBLES - 7/10: Probably the worst live band I have ever seen but they get a couple of points taking off for car crash/amusement value.BIFFY CLYRO - 7/10: Would probably be higher if I'd had more exposure to their fans and/or been to Reading in 10 years.FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - 4/10 - bit too much in the star quality stakes, also a couple of alright songs.HARD-FI - 6/10 - awful clumsy shit but they get a couple of points knocked off because Hard To Beat was quite a good song, and they weren't the Ordinary Boys.HUNDRED REASONS - 5/10 - too past-it and lol to be serious contenders hereJOE LEAN AND THE JING JANG JONG - 7/10 - obviously woeful but everybody knew itKAISER CHIEFS - 10/10 genuine contendersKASABIAN - 10/10 genuine contenders, also worst fans everKEANE - 2/10 basically too inoffensiveMUMFORD & CUNTS - 20/10NOAH AND THE WHALE - 5/10 - no one can seriously vote for them when Mumford & Sons existPIGEON DETECTIVES - 10/10 worst shit everRAZORLIGHT - 10/10 also maybe more for Johnny Borrell factorSCOUTING FOR GIRLS - 11/10 she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverlySNOW PATROL - 9/10 - they get a point knocked off for making DJ Martian so angrySTARSAILOR - 8/10 - obviously terrible but also kind of easy to ignore to matter how big they wereTHE COURTEENERS - 6/10 - some Oasis shit, right?THE CRIBS - 9/10, dude has one of the worst voices everTHE ENEMY - can't even remember what they sounded like but I'll assume they were terrible so a straight 8/10THE FEELING - I don't think I've actually knowingly heard one of their songs, 8/10 as I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubtTHE FRATELLIS - 30/10 - Chelsea Dagger might be the worst thing that any of these bands have put outTHE FUTUREHEADS - 5/10 - feel a bit too credible to be hereTHE HOOSIERS - 9/10, stupid nameTHE KOOKS - 4/10 - hating on the Kooks feels a bit like hating on Keane, kneejerk "girls like this so it must be shit" hateTHE MAGIC NUMBERS - 5/10 - hilarious strop on Top of the Pops gives them a bit of leeway, also everyone's forgotten about themTHE ORDINARY BOYS - 10/10 - surely they were to 'ska' what Mumford & Sons are to 'folk'THE OTHERS - honestly I have no idea what they sounded like but the sheer lack of ambition indicated by giving yourselves a name with absolutely no connotations whatsoever gets them a straight 10/10THE RAKES - even Lethal Bizzle is probably embarassed about this lot now 8/10THE STEREOPHONICS - okay they might actually rival Mumford & Sons 30/10THE TWANG - 8/10 - fuck knowsTHE VIEW - 9/10 - Cast more likeTHE WOMBATS - 8/10 but at least they seem funny in retrospectTHE ZUTONS - 10/10 - die.TOPLOADER - should fit in the Kooks/Keane mould except for the fact that Dancing In The Moonlight is one of the worst records ever made. 10/10
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i have the biffy clyro album with the woman masturbating on the front. i do not recall the name of the record but the image stuck. the singles off that were v good and i suspect continue to be so.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
xp re Maximo Park, yeah I'd put em around Cribs level, fine enough in themselves, but too close to the vortex not to get sucked in.
I was gonna vote for someone who may get a bit overlooked (suspect that there won't be too many hundred votes for the fucking Fratellis), but really I want this to be a Scouting for Girls landslide.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Never forget this atrocity. Watch this before voting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-oMHPZgKJc
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Futureheads wld sit more comfortably in some kind of tru-indie thing with The Young Knives, Mystery Jets etc. Minor mid-decade successes.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
You people are all giving The Rakes and The Cribs too much credit.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
THE KOOKS - 4/10
way too lenient.
"Well uh oh, oh I love her because she moves in her own wayWell uh oh, oh she ame oo my oh ust oo hear aout eye ay"
kill kill kill
― ledge, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Toploader and Stereophonics are well out-of-time for this poll.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I believe the singer from Maximo park wore/wears a bowler hat, which is enough to ratchet up their score a few points. One of their songs wasn't too bad though, it had a jittery energy to it.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i have never heard scouting for girls or read anything about them. can someone explain why they are the worst please?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:59 AM (16 minutes ago)
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Both Toploader and the Shitophonics had significant 2000 albums out, I reckon they qualify, and they're not synonymous with the previous decade in the way that, say, Oasis were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6coqAoDC0
^^^ Simultaneous nadir of two separate genres, which is quite an achievement.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Rakes' first album also had a lot of jittery energy and enough opacity to get them let off here, if you want to be For Real horrible you've gotta wear them hearts on your sleeves.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
We should judge this scientifically by sending the list as a questionnaire to Nick Clegg and asking him to tick off which ones he likes the best. Scouting For Girls would probably win due to repping for him.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
singles off first rakes album were great. next couple singles after were good too but then they ran out.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Kings of Leon really should be on this poll, it's what they would've wanted.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Like a lot of their work:futureheads
Like one or two songs:hard-fikaiser chiefskasabiankeanerazorlightsnow patrolthe feelingthe magic numbersthe zutons
Ho hum:athletebabyshamblesflorence and the machinestarsailorthe cribsthe hoosierstoploader
10th circle of hell:biffy clyroscouting for girlsthe fratellisthe kooksthe ordinary boysthe stereophonics
Never knowingly heard:hundred reasonsjoe lean and the jing jang jongmumford and sonsnoah and the whalepigeon detectivesthe courteenersthe enemythe othersthe rakesthe twangthe viewthe wombats
Voted Biffy Clyro.
― Obese Pony-hating Liberal (Billy Dods), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to 'she's so lovely'... fuck
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Yes, the first Rakes album is so much better than most of the stuff here. They were at least trying to be clever and interesting. Though grindie was obviously a regrettable episode in this proud nation's history.
― DL, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
We should judge this scientifically by sending the list as a questionnaire to Nick Clegg and asking him to tick off which ones he likes the best.
Polls on ILM are fucked up enough without introducing AV cheers
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
biffy clyro are really really awful and a(nother) stain on my country.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you know what's sad? Enter Shikari are better than all of these.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
There's definitely a difference between bands where I was lured in by one good single and then loss interest and ones (like the Kooks and Scouting for Girls) where I clearly remember encountering them for the first time and thinking, fuck this for a game of soldiers.
― DL, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlMfV7A3V00
This is just the worst. If I had the choice between being forced to listen to this on repeat for eternity in hell and listening to She's So Lovely on repeat for eternity in hell I think I would probably plump for Scouting For Girls.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
If it was definitely one or the other I wd become a big-time god botherer tbh
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
she's so lovely vs dancing in the moonlight vs good enough (dodgy) which one would be the winner for worst song? Im guessing shes so lovely as its the most recent but those other 2 were the equivalent of their day.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the answer is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7Zkkucos8
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
'she's so luvverly' isn't even the worst SFG song, of the two i can remember. that one that got to #1 was even worse. about to give it a spin [via anachronistic phrases for playing music on spotify].
'dancing in the moonlight' pwns the fuck out of most of the songs named so far imo. could be a fucked up kneejerk nostalgia thing.
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
were these bands worse than the 2nd & 3rd rate britpop bands of the 90s?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I found a copy of the original "Dancing in the moonlight", it's OK.
Good Enough has a couple of good bits in.
Leaving "She's so lovely", doesn't really enlarge on why except for "I think that she is beau-ti-fl"
Which is not exactly shakespear this.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this poll is making me rifle thru my bottle stash, but it's not nostalgia
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:08 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
i love love love this first album & also the first single from album 2
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
matt's rundown is killing me, A+
can someone please unban dom for this thread only
Yeah come on, Cast and Shed Seven and Kula Shaker and the like had too many hilarious self-clowning moments. They were shit but I was glad they existed.
Rooster's debut single, "Come Get Some," reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart in November 2004. Live shows saw the band improvising and extending songs; Neale often performed a four-minute-long drum solo during "Drag The Sunrise Down." Rooster were known to incorporate covers, such as, Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," Free's "All Right Now," Jamiroquai's "Deeper Underground," Blackstreet's "No Diggity" and The Rolling Stone's "Satisfaction" into their live sets.
I bet that cover of No Diggity was... something.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Worst SFG song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9e7z9y5r2g
― DL, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
OH FUCK ROOSTER
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Re-poll
oh god, from the first two bars of that song you know it's going to suck ass.
― skip, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
example of a 2nd and 3rd rate britpop band plz.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
'she's so luvverly' isn't even the worst SFG song, of the two i can remember. that one that got to #1 was even worse.
actually i withdraw this comment. the #1 is just blander. you could probably ignore it, despite the stakeriness.
xp
lol i was going to mention rooster earlier but somehow had em pegged as a bustedwave tween act?
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Wd like to draw the jury's attention to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuwnzv9FzwM
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
xposts are KILLING here.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hoosier's lead dwarf's face is very stabby
oh, and:
Apparently, the Hoosiers are going to release the world's longest single, at 43 mins...
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
How many 'a load of old cock' jokes were made at the time?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I am looking forward to polling The Family Cat, The Senseless Things and the Mega City 4 in a couple of weeks.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
where is WBS
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't judge tbh. Last random 2nd-tierer i heard was Great Things by Echobelly, about a week ago. Sounded fine, cheered me a little to hear it but I am of that age now yknow. + at least there were some women were in the britpop bands.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Symposium are back together, end times
― MaresNest, Saturday, 18 November 2023 12:09 (five months ago) link
I'm sad I missed this original poll
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 18 November 2023 13:17 (five months ago) link
The right (i.e. worst) two bands came out tops though
But I feel like I have opinions on almost every single of these bands and histories with a great deal of them also.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 18 November 2023 13:19 (five months ago) link